Isabel Castro Publishes Book
Romance Studies alumna Isabel Castro has published a monograph length study of Ecuadorian writer Raúl Andrade, titled La crítica de la modernidad en las crónicas de Raúl Andrade. Isabel tells us:
“Raúl Andrade (1905-1983) was an Ecuadorian writer, journalist, and intellectual, who published 10,000 crónicas (journalistic chronicles) in the most important Spanish-American newspapers, such as La Nación, El Excelsior, and El Tiempo. I was inspired to write a book about him because he chose la crónica to assign himself the role of a twentieth-century Spanish American cosmopolitan intellectual. As such, he diagnosed the relationship between art and society in the context of post-war modernity in Paris, where he resided from 1949-1951. To critique modernity, he unveiled modern myths about Paris, promoted by triumphant capitalism and the French state presided over by De Gaulle. He proposed that the only way to resist the distorting pressures of consumer society was preventing art from becoming fully subject of modern market dynamics.”
Isabel graduated from BU Romance Studies in 2012 with a doctorate in Hispanic Language & Literatures.